The great Steve Mannion just spent a dog's age tabulating the results from the ILX/NYLPM music poll asking people to nominate their favorite albums and tracks from 2000 to 2004 so far. Below, I publish an annotated version of that list.

*heard it, voted for it
**heard it, cannot remember if I voted for it or not
@heard it, didn't vote for it
~didn't hear it but want to and/or heard it but didn't remember it very well so didn't vote for it
+didn't hear it, no interest in doing so
&only heard screwed and chopped version

If I were to re-order this list, leaving out the ones I haven't heard and the ones I don't really care about, it would go like this:

1. That I clearly am way out of the loop. I'd better start downloading or something.

2. That when my wife says I spend too much money on music, she's high. Well, okay, I do spend too much money on music. But it's not any of this stuff, and think what would happen if I actually had all these records!

3. That I am very not into the kinds of things that other critics are, but I'd like to be, but I probably wouldn't even love half the things on the list that I've marked as "I'd like to hear this." I pretty much like everything, though. I am quick to like and quick to love. I just don't flip for mumbling Mormons, even if they are pretty and all that, nor do I go gaga for indie hipsters. I am slowly drifting away from ILX, from the zeitmind, from everything.

4. That I am NOT the only person who's ever heard of Bersuit Vergabarat. I nominated Hijos del Culo (you could only nominate one album and one song) and it ended up at #109 on the list, which means that other people voted for it besides the likes of me! I am shocked and happily surprised.